Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Placing data (cases, for example) from one classification (scheme) into categories of a second classification (when there is one-to-one correspondence) or by concatenating one or more categories from the first classification into the second, a sort of “compound grouping.” Where the groups of the second classification are more specific than or different from those of…

A situation where two copies of an allele are required for a characteristic to be expressed.  

A statistic derived from performing a receiver operating characteristic analysis (ROC analysis).  

A method of evaluating diagnostic imaging tests.  

A document acknowledging that money or goods have been received.  

A fact which shifts the “burden of proof” from one party to the other in a lawsuit. It has been proposed that if a physician sued for malpractice has followed approved clinical practice guidelines, this would create a legal presumption that the physician was not negligent. Such a presumption may be rebutted by the plaintiff…

A second (or later) admission of a patient to a facility. Sometimes the term is used in a manner that implies that the readmission is tor further treatment for the condition occasioning the previous admission, because of recurrence of the problem or failure of completion of care; however, this inference is not warranted.  

The range of difference in insurance premiums for a specific class of individuals. Some health care reform proposals require that such bands be eliminated, that is, they require that all insurers adopt the same rate for a given class of individuals.  

A process of regulation of hospital charges (see rate) by an external agency which sets the rates for the institution.